Katharina Damschen

This post appeared first on factor10.com. I was accepted to speak at Domain-Driven Design Europe 2026 back in February, and I have been extremely excited and nervous about it ever since. Last week, the conference finally took place in Antwerp, Belgium. I wrote up my summary of the conference.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU regulation that will be fully applicable as of 2027-12-11 with reporting getting into effect in September 2026 already. It forces everyone placing ‘products with digital elements’ onto the EU market to comply with essential cybersecurity requirements during the whole product lifecycle including design, development, production, operation and decommissioning.

This post appeared first on factor10.com. It just doesn’t make any sense! Your software team has been getting slower and slower up to a point where every new feature is painfully forced through the system, wrecking everything it touches, leaving everyone afraid to make any changes in the first place and adding more and more defensive processes that slow the system down additionally.

In the blogpost about structural idealization I explained how structural engineers model reality to answer the question whether their designed structure can withstand the forces applied to it. But how does an engineer know which forces will be applied to their structure? The weight of the structure can be approximated at best, and natural occurrences like wind or snow or a car crashing into the building are much harder to anticipate and quantify. And how does an engineer consider a car crashing into the structure while still building reasonably economical?

I sometimes joke that I have gone full-circle: from Structural Engineer to Software Architect. Structural Engineering and Architecture are of course not at all the same thing (like you can never suggest that to either Structural Engineers or Architects!), but people tend to mix those two up. I in fact think it should be called ‘Software Structural Engineer’ instead of Software Architect. That would be more correct and would make my joke funnier. Let me explain…